you may have little pesky pests eating your veggies.
We all know that you did not go to all that effort for those nasty little bugs to
enjoy a fresh tasty meal.
You did it to feed YOUR family, not theirs!!
Here is my organic solution to keep them off your precious produce and also give the plants a little boost!
Organic Garden Spray
10-15 cloves of minced garlic
Several sprigs of mint (catnip, peppermint, spearmint, whatever kind you may have or can find)
Bruise them up before putting them in the jar
1/2 gallon of hot water
1 tsp of white liquid dish soap (Ivory, or some other cheap brand)
Pour hot water over garlic and mint. (like you are making tea) let it steep overnight.
Strain plant material out the next day. (keep the liquid, that's your spray!)
Add soap to the liquid
Put into a spray bottle.Spray on plants as needed.
This mix is great for repelling lots of different pests and also is great to spray on plants that are infected with certain kinds of fungus.
I sprayed it on my bean plants and it cleared up the "spots" that had been forming, they looked beautiful after being sprayed!
It's a good idea to pretest a small area on your plants before spraying the entire crop!
Rotation gardening also helps to deter certain pests as well. This will help to keep the tomato hornworms from finding your tomatoes! Try to not plant the same thing in the same area from year to year.
If they do find your tomatoes, and the spray isn't working, the best thing to do is to pick them off individually and destroy them. That way they don't keep reproducing in your area.
Happy Gardening!
